Colby Covington has inspired Tony Ferguson to hold up the gloves after snapping his current eight-fight dropping skid. ‘El Cucuy’ broke a prolonged win drought at Misfits Boxing 22 when Ferguson scored a TKO victory over Salt Papi to assert an interim MFB belt.
It resonated as a feel-good win for a lot of, with the previous interim UFC light-weight champion incomes his first win within the boxing ring, however a former interim UFC welterweight champ desires Ferguson to journey off into the sundown now. The 2 have had some interactions by the years, with each Covington and Ferguson exhibiting one another help forward of their respective fights at UFC 296.
When addressing Ferguson’s current win contained in the boxing ring in a video that ‘Chaos’ posted to his private YouTube channel, with an excerpt posted to X account @RedCorner_MMA, with an insult towards Justin Gaethje labored in towards the tip, Covington mentioned [via Sherdog],
“Glad for him. Congratulations to Tony [Ferguson] for truly profitable a combat. Though it was towards some influencer that had no fight sports activities expertise. A win’s a win. My recommendation to Tony is; give up whilst you’re forward. Journey off into the sundown. Go get pleasure from time with your loved ones brother. For those who get again in there, you’re gonna get damage and nobody desires to see you get damage, Tony, as a result of we such as you. No extra hits to the top. And no motive to provide duck-lipped [Justin] Gaethje a run for his cash for king of CTE.”
Colby Covington and his personal expertise boxing an influencer
Whereas Colby Covington threw shade at Tony Ferguson‘s win over Salt Papi by describing the latter as an influencer with no combating expertise, ‘Chaos’ lately had his personal occasion of throwing down with an internet content material creator.
The previous UFC interim welterweight champion has been making headlines lately after Covington sparred influencer Chrogman in a $30,000 sparring problem, which befell on the UFC Efficiency Institute.
In one other video posted to Covington’s YouTube channel, the combined martial artist labored Chrogman’s torso with a number of physique pictures till the 19-year-old ended up puking on the canvas. With one win in his final 4 fights, maybe Covington might find yourself on this Misfits Boxing circuit himself sooner or later in time.
